German police have arrested a Lebanese national on suspicion of being a member of Hamas and planning attacks in Europe. The man, named as “Mohammad S”, was stopped at Berlin’s Brandenburg Airport after arriving from Beirut on Friday evening. Federal prosecutors said that in August 2025 he helped procure 300 rounds of ammunition and was…
A sever winter storm that could affect more than 200 million Americans has brought heavy snow, and freezing temperatures. Regions that could see more than a foot of snow stretch from Colorado to West Virginia, New York City and up to Boston, according to the National Weather Service. More than 10,000 US flights were cancelled…
Ukraine is now living through its most difficult winter in recent memory. With January temperatures plummeting below -15C, Russia has been attacking energy infrastructure, leaving about a million Ukrainians without heating. The capital, Kyiv, is the main target of such attacks. Following the latest Russian bombardment overnight into 24 January, almost 6,000 apartment blocks were…
US President Donald Trump threatened to hit Canada with a 100% tariff on all Canadian goods if the country’s prime minister strikes a trade deal with China. “If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A.,” Trump wrote…
Reuters Zhang Youxia was widely seen as President Xi’s closest military ally China’s defence ministry says it has opened an investigation into the country’s highest-ranking general over “grave violations of discipline and the law”. The ministry gave no further details about accusations against General Zhang Youxia, who has widely been seen as President Xi Jinping’s…
Guy Hedgecoein Córdoba, Spain Reuters “Since the high-speed line was built, 30-something years ago, we never had any problems, it worked perfectly and was fantastic,” says Alberto Montavez Montes, a shop-owner opposite Córdoba city hall, where the Spanish and Andalusian flags have been hanging at half-mast. Now, though things feel different: “It’s not that there’s…
Canada’s Arctic is a massive, treacherous, and largely inhospitable place, stretched out over nearly 4 million square kilometres of territory – but with a small population roughly equal to Blackburn in England or Syracuse, New York. “You can take a map of continental Europe, put it on the Canadian Arctic, and there’s room to spare,”…
TikTok’s new US joint venture has made changes to its privacy policy that include expanding the type of location data the company can collect from its 200 million American users. The new policy was published after investors closed a deal with TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance on Thursday to run the popular short-form video app’s business…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has weighed in on a separatist movement in Alberta, saying the western Canadian province is a “natural partner for the US”. “Alberta has a wealth of natural resources, but they won’t let them build a pipeline to the Pacific,” Bessent told an American right-wing commentator in an interview on Thursday….
At least seven people have died and more than 80 others are missing after a landslide hit Indonesia’s West Java province, officials said. The landslide occurred in the West Bandung region, south-east of the capital Jakarta, following days of intense rainfall. More than thirty homes were destroyed after “landslide material buried residential areas, causing fatalities…